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  To wean UK off Russian gas – the key is energy efficiency + wind projects – not nuclear power, says new research. by Christina Macpherson  Fixing energy-leaking homes and funding wind projects – not nuclear power stations – is key to weaning the UK off Russian gas, a new studysays, amid cabinet clashes over policy. Boris Johnson is pushing to get 25 per cent of the UK’s electricity from nuclear power – requiring up to six new power stations – at a cost that is alarming Rishi Sunak, the chancellor. Meanwhile, cabinet rows over relaxing planning rules to lift the block on onshore wind turbines are also holding up a new energy strategy, prompted by the Ukraine crisis. Now an analysis by the climate change think tank E3G says a strategy that “starts at home” is the route to reducing reliance on Vladimir Putin’s gas supplies. Dramatically improving the energy efficiency of the UK’s buildings “could secure an 80 per cent cut in the amount of gas we import from Russia this year”, it is argu

  Ukraine Shows Hating Israel Isn’t About the Palestinians Daniel Greenfield Thu Mar 31, 2022 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. A war is raging three thousand miles away from Jerusalem between two nations that share no borders with Israel, and in which it has no troops, no interests, and no involvement. And yet somehow the war between Russia and Ukraine has come to be about Israel. "Israel Needs to Make Up Its Mind on Ukraine," a Foreign Policy Magazine op-ed blares as if the Jewish State were somehow a major player in a war between two much larger countries thousands of miles away. It’s as absurd as demanding that the Dominican Republic (which is still larger than Israel) make up its mind on the border clashes between India and China. "Israel’s reaction to #Ukraine will have bearing on future aid from the US to #Israel," Rep. Adam Kinzi

  Mother with child,  Honoré Daumier, circa 1865-1870. Wikimedia Postpartum “Bloods of Purity” Prof.Tamar Kamionkowski Mesopotamian gynecological texts and what we know about women’s post-partum flow are helpful in parsing the unusual Hebrew idiom demei tohorah, literally, “bloods of purity,” used in Leviticus 12 to describe the second stage of postpartum bleeding. The Second Stage after Childbirth According to Leviticus 12, after a woman gives birth, she passes through two different stages. The first stage is compared to the seven-day impurity (ט.מ.א) of a menstruant, referring to the norms now found in Leviticus 15. ויקרא יב:ב ...אִשָּׁה כִּי תַזְרִיעַ וְיָלְדָה זָכָר וְטָמְאָה שִׁבְעַת יָמִים כִּימֵי נִדַּת דְּו‍ֹתָהּ תִּטְמָא... Lev 12:2 …When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be unclean seven days; she shall be unclean as at the time of her menstrual infirmity…. In the second stage, the woman remains (literally “sits”) in her “bloods of tohorah,” from the root ט.ה.ר, m

The  metzora  being purified with the two birds. By Dutch engraver Simon Fokke, 1712-1784. Rijksmuseum Tzaraat in Light of Its Mesopotamian Parallels Dr.Yitzhaq Feder Despite its lengthy coverage of tzaraat, biblical “leprosy,” the Torah omits discussion of its cause, its infectiousness, and its treatment. Comparison to the Mesopotamian rituals pertaining to a strikingly similar disease, Saḫaršubbû, shows that these omissions were far from accidental. He is diagnosed as sick, but never treated. He is banished from the community, but not contagious. He offers a guilt offering (אשם), but his sin is left unstated. Who is this meṣor‘a, and what is this disease called tzaraat? The question of the identity of this disease has been subject to hundreds of academic papers, a fact that may surprise the average reader who would be quite content to ignore this subject entirely. Yet the detailed discussion of skin disease in Leviticus 13–14 has implications that reach far beyond the discussion of t

South Sudan VP Hussein Abdelbagi vising UNISFA on 30 March 2022. [Photo: UNISFA]   VP Abdelbagi visits UNISFA over Twic-Ngok Dinka clashesSouth Sudan’s Vice President for Service Cluster, Mr. Hussein Abdelbagi Akol on Wednesday visited the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) on a fact-finding mission following the crisis in Agok between the Twic Dinka and the Ngok Dinka communities.  In a statement on Thursday, UNISFA said the vice president interacted with UNISFA leadership to assess its role during the clashes within the context of its mandate to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence. "The Force Commander and Acting Head of Mission, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr assured the investigating team that the interaction with the mission leadership would be beneficial to both parties and help find a lasting solution to the violence experienced within the Box," the statement read in part. "General Sawyerr reiterated that UNISFA c

Marxism and globalization (3) Hatem Babiker Awad Al-Karim   Marx's Theory and the Globalized Economy:  The Marxist theory spoke in the Communist Manifesto about the embryonic seeds of globalization in the beginnings of the creation of the capitalist system, then the wheels turned and achieved rapprochement between peoples, and the world became a tool for communication and communication in the revolution of science and technology that shortened the world. The discovery of America and the circumnavigation of Africa created a new field for the emerging bourgeoisie. The market of India... and China. The colonization of America and the exchange with the colonies, and the increase in the means of exchange and commodities in general, provided new markets... and modern industry. He created the world market for which the discovery of America paved the way for America. And the world market...the bourgeoisie's need for a permanent export of its products, to market them all over the globe.